Back to School: 2014-2015

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - By August, summertime will be winding down and vacations will be coming to an end, signaling that back-to-school time is near. It's a time that many children eagerly anticipate - catching up with old friends and making new ones, and settling into a new daily routine. Parents and children alike scan newspapers and websites looking for sales on a multitude of school supplies and the latest clothing fads and essentials. This edition of Facts for Features highlights the many statistics associated with the return to classrooms by our nation's students and teachers.

The number of children and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in October 2012 - from nursery school to college. They comprised 26.4 percent of the entire population age 3 and older. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, School Enrollment - Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2012, Table 1 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/2012/tables.html>

Percentage of college students 35 and older in October 2012. They made up 32 percent of those attending school part time. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, School Enrollment - Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2012, Table 5 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/2012/tables.html>

Percentage of students enrolled in college who worked less than full time, year-round in 2011; 20 percent worked full time, year-round. Source: School Enrollment and Work Status: 2011, Appendix Table 1-A <http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-14.pdf>

3.1 million

Number of enrolled high school students who worked less than full time, year-round in 2011; 146,000 students in high school worked full time, year-round. Source: School Enrollment and Work Status: 2011, Appendix Table 1-A <http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-14.pdf>

Field of Degree

12.5 million

Number of people age 25 and over who held a bachelor's degree in business in 2012. Business degrees were reported by 20.5 percent of the population with a bachelor's degree, followed by education (13.5 percent); science-and engineering-related fields (9.1 percent); engineering (7.8 percent); social sciences (7.7 percent); biological, agricultural and environmental sciences (6.2 percent); other (5.3 percent); liberal arts and history (5.0 percent); psychology (4.7 percent); literature and languages (4.4 percent); computers, mathematics and statistics (4.2 percent); visual and performing arts (4.1 percent); communications (3.7 percent); and physical and related sciences (3.3 percent). Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 American Community Survey <http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/12_1YR/B15010>

Average earnings of full-time, year-round workers 18 and older with an advanced degree (bachelor's degree or higher) in 2012. Workers whose highest degree was a bachelor's had mean earnings of $70,432. Mean earnings for full-time, year-round workers with a high school diploma (includes GED certificate) was $41,248, while workers with less than a ninth grade education had $26,679 average earnings. Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2012, Series P60-245

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